BLM ready to start roundup

10:35 PM,
Apr. 3, 2014

Cliven Bundy checks the inside of his small helicopter.

Written by

Mike Donahue
Desert Valley Times

A host of federal employees including Bureau of Land Management (BLM) law enforcement and other personnel, National Park Service representatives, private contractors and others have spread out across some 600,000 acres surrounding Mesquite in preparation to impound between 500 and 900 cattle owned by Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy.

Kirsten Cannon, BLM Southern District public affairs specialist, said the BLM is withholding the exact number of federal authorities participating in the cattle roundup or the estimated cost of the effort, but Bundy said both are sizable.